"James Cameron's Avatar: The Game James Cameron's Avatar: The Game is a 2009 third-person action video game based on James Cameron's 2009 film ""Avatar"". The game was developed by Ubisoft Montreal and released on the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Microsoft Windows, Wii and Nintendo DS on December 1, 2009, with a PSP version released later on December 7, 2009. It uses the same technology as the film to be displayed in stereoscopic 3D. As of May 19, 2010, the game has sold nearly 2.7 million copies. The game, which acts as a prequel to the film, features Sigourney Weaver, Stephen"
"(2005). He returned to directing features in 2009 with the 3D science fiction film ""Avatar"". It grossed over $2.78 billion at the worldwide box-office and became the highest grossing of all time surpassing ""Titanic"". The film still holds this record as of 2017. ""Avatar"" was nominated for nine Academy Awards and won three in technical categories. Cameron also earned a second Golden Globe Award for Best Director, and Best Motion Picture – Drama. He followed this by executive producing two 3D films, ""Sanctum"" (2011) and """" (2012), as well as the documentary ""Deepsea Challenge 3D"" (2014). Cameron made his television"
"Vince Pace for the 2009 film ""Avatar"". The film was written and directed by Paul W. S. Anderson. Set after the events of ""Extinction"", Alice and her clones attack the Umbrella Headquarters in Tokyo. Wesker escapes and destroys the facility, killing the clones. Wesker is confronted by Alice aboard his helicopter. He injects Alice with a serum that removes her super-human abilities. The helicopter crashes, and only Alice is seen emerging from the rubble. After six months of a failed aerial search for other survivors, Alice heads toward the supposed location of Arcadia. She lands on an airfield in Alaska,"
"Horner collaborated again with James Cameron on his 2009 film ""Avatar"", which became the highest-grossing film of all time, surpassing Cameron's own ""Titanic"". Horner worked exclusively on ""Avatar"" for over two years. He said, """"Avatar"" has been the most difficult film I have worked on, and the biggest job I have undertaken... I work from four in the morning to about ten at night, and that's been my way of life since March. That's the world I'm in now, and it makes you feel estranged from everything. I'll have to recover from that and get my head out of [it]."""
"for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Film Editing. After ""Titanic"", Cameron began a project that took almost 10 years to make: his science-fiction epic ""Avatar"" (2009), which was in particular a landmark for 3D technology, and for which he received nominations for the same three Academy Awards. Despite ""Avatar"" being his only movie made to date in 3D, Cameron is the most successful 3D film-maker in terms of box-office revenue. In the time between making ""Titanic"" and ""Avatar"", Cameron spent several years creating many documentary films (specifically underwater documentaries) and co-developed the digital 3D Fusion Camera System. Described by"
"first feature film since 1997's ""Titanic"". It is composed almost entirely of computer-generated animation, using a more-advanced version of the ""performance capture"" technique used by director Robert Zemeckis in ""The Polar Express"". James Cameron had written an 80-page scriptment for ""Avatar"" in 1995 and announced in 1996 that he would make the film after completing ""Titanic"". In December 2006, Cameron explained that the delay in producing the film since the 1990s had been to wait until the technology necessary to create his project was advanced enough, since at the time no studio would finance for the development of the visual"
"voicemails during filming, giving advice on the role. Steven Spielberg taught her the Vulcan salute five years earlier when he directed her in ""The Terminal"". ""Star Trek"" (2009) was a box office success grossing $385.7 million. Saldana's second high-profile film in 2009 was James Cameron's ""Avatar"", in which she played the alien hunter Neytiri. ""Avatar"" was well-received by critics, accumulating an approval rating of 83% on the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes. It grossed $2.7 billion worldwide to become the highest-grossing film of all time, as well as in the United States and Canada. It also became the first film to"
"to ""The Hurt Locker"". Jon Landau (film producer) Jon Landau (; born July 23, 1960) is an American film producer, known for producing ""Titanic"" (1997), a film which won him an Academy Award and earned $2.19 billion in gross revenues, and ""Avatar"" (2009), which earned $2.79 billion. , these are still the two highest-grossing films of all time. Landau was born Jewish family in New York City, New York, the son of Edie, a producer, and Ely A. Landau, a studio executive and producer. He attended the USC School of Cinematic Arts. Throughout the early '90s, Landau was Executive Vice"
"Mauro Fiore Mauro Fiore (born November 15, 1964) is an Italian-American cinematographer. He was born in Marzi, Calabria and moved to the US with his family in 1971. He attended Palatine High School in Palatine, Illinois, and graduated in 1982. He went on to receive his B.A. from Columbia College Chicago in 1987. He is most notable for his work in the 2009 film ""Avatar"" for which he won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography at the 82nd Academy Awards. Other prior films that he worked on before ""Avatar"" are ""Training Day"", ""The Hire: Ticker"", ""Tears of the Sun"", ""Smokin'"
"effects. The film was originally scheduled to be released in May 2009 but was pushed back to December 2009 to allow more time for post-production on the complex CGI and to give more time for theatres worldwide to install 3D projectors. Cameron originally intended ""Avatar"" to be 3D-only. ""Avatar"" broke several box office records during its initial theatrical run. It grossed $749.7 million in the United States and Canada and more than $2.74 billion worldwide, becoming the highest-grossing film of all time in the United States and Canada, surpassing Cameron's ""Titanic"". ""Avatar"" also became the first movie to ever earn"
"universe in early 2006. ""Avatar"" was officially budgeted at $237 million. Other estimates put the cost between $280 million and $310 million for production and at $150 million for promotion. The film made extensive use of new motion capture filming techniques, and was released for traditional viewing, 3D viewing (using the RealD 3D, Dolby 3D, XpanD 3D, and IMAX 3D formats), and for ""4D"" experiences in select South Korean theaters. The stereoscopic filmmaking was touted as a breakthrough in cinematic technology. ""Avatar"" premiered in London on , 2009, and was internationally released on and in the United States and Canada"
"The Cove ""Broken Embraces (Los abrazos rotos)"" • Spain Grey Gardens Rick Carter and Robert Stromberg – ""Avatar"" Mauro Fiore – ""Avatar"" Sandy Powell – ""The Young Victoria"" James Cameron, John Refoua, and Stephen E. Rivkin – ""Avatar"" District 9 Michael Giacchino – ""Up"" ""The Weary Kind"" by Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett, ""Crazy Heart"" Avatar Avatar Kevin Bacon 15th Critics' Choice Awards The 15th Critics' Choice Awards were presented on January 15, 2010 at the Hollywood Palladium, honoring the finest achievements of 2009 filmmaking. The ceremony was broadcast on VH1 and hosted by Kristin Chenoweth. The Hurt Locker"
"Avataran Avataran is an upcoming Assamese language Sci- Fi film directed by Tarunabh Dutta and produced by Nalinikanth Dutta under the banner of TD Studio Productions. It features Pranjal Saikia, Purnima Saikia, Rimpi Das, Sourabh Hazarika, Ananya Parashar, Samir Ranjan, Reema Begam, Devyam Seal, Martina Gogoi, Aasthajitananda Bordoloi in major roles. Technically ""Avataran"" is the most expensive film produced ever in the history of North-East Indian cinema. The film was shot using Canon 5D Mark III camera in beautiful Assamese locations. The director Dutta is handling the cinematography himself. The principal photography began in May 2012. The film's post production"
"Jon Landau (film producer) Jon Landau (; born July 23, 1960) is an American film producer, known for producing ""Titanic"" (1997), a film which won him an Academy Award and earned $2.19 billion in gross revenues, and ""Avatar"" (2009), which earned $2.79 billion. , these are still the two highest-grossing films of all time. Landau was born Jewish family in New York City, New York, the son of Edie, a producer, and Ely A. Landau, a studio executive and producer. He attended the USC School of Cinematic Arts. Throughout the early '90s, Landau was Executive Vice President of Feature Film"
"to the ""Project 880"" script, and it was finally released in 2009 as ""Avatar"". The filming of the 1995 film ""Strange Days"" SQUID scenes, which offer a point-of-view shot (POV), required multi-faceted cameras and considerable technical preparation. A full year was spent building a specialized camera that could reproduce the effect of looking through someone else's eyes. Bigelow revealed that it was essentially ""a stripped-down Arri that weighed much less than the smallest EYMO and yet it would take all the prime lenses."" Cameron and cinematographer Matthew F. Leonetti helped Bigelow direct the scenes, which were choreographed weeks in advance,"
"Production at Twentieth Century Fox. He is best known for producing ""Titanic"" (1997), a film which won him an Academy Award and became the highest-grossing film of all time, the first ever to reach $2.0 billion in gross revenues. The film reached $2.19 billion, more than double the $1.03 billion of then-record-holder ""Jurassic Park"" (1993). In 2009, Landau and James Cameron produced the science fiction blockbuster ""Avatar"", which has since surpassed their earlier collaboration, ""Titanic"", to become the new (and reigning) highest-grossing film of all time, with $2.79 billion. ""Avatar"" earned Landau his second Academy Award nomination, losing that year"
"Avatar (2004 film) Avatar (), also known as Matrix Hunter (Japan DVD title & USA video title), Avatar Exile (working title), Cyber Wars (USA DVD title) is a Singaporean science fiction film directed by Kuo Jian Hong. The film was shot in 2001 and released in 2004. In the fictional near future, nearly everyone is identified by an implanted microchip and connected to the cybernet. Criminals use fake chips, known as ""SIMs"" (Simulated Identity iMplants). A female bounty hunter is looking for a man who bought a SIM. She uncovers a game to manipulate society being played by the leaders"
"with paintings and physical sculptures when Cameron felt that 3-D brush renderings were not capturing his vision, often working together in the kitchen of Cameron's Malibu home. In , Cameron announced that he would film ""Avatar"" for a mid-2008 release and planned to begin principal photography with an established cast by . The following August, the visual effects studio Weta Digital signed on to help Cameron produce ""Avatar"". Stan Winston, who had collaborated with Cameron in the past, joined ""Avatar"" to help with the film's designs. Production design for the film took several years. The film had two different production"
"Fictional universe of Avatar In the 2009 science fiction film ""Avatar"", director James Cameron conceived a fictional universe in which humans seek to mine unobtanium on the fictional exoplanetary moon, Pandora. The Earth-like moon is inhabited by a sapient indigenous humanoid species called the Na'vi, and varied fauna and flora. Resources Development Administration (RDA) scientists, administrators, recruits, support, and security personnel travel to Pandora in the 22nd century to discover this lush world, which is inhabited by many lifeforms including the human-like Na'vi. The clan with which the humans have contact in the film ""[lives] in a giant tree that"
"80-page treatment for ""Avatar"", drawing inspiration from ""every single science fiction book"" he had read in his childhood as well as from adventure novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs and H. Rider Haggard. In , Cameron announced that after completing ""Titanic"", he would film ""Avatar"", which would make use of synthetic, or computer-generated, actors. The project would cost $100 million and involve at least six actors in leading roles ""who appear to be real but do not exist in the physical world"". Visual effects house Digital Domain, with whom Cameron has a partnership, joined the project, which was supposed to begin"
"John C. Kilkenny John Kilkenny is a President at 20th Century Fox, heading the studio's visual effects department. His division budgets, produces and oversees all the visual effects on feature films made by the studio's production units, 20th Century Fox, Fox 2000 Pictures and Fox Searchlight Pictures. Most notably, Kilkenny is credited with overseeing the Academy Award-winning effects on ""Avatar"" which was written and directed by Academy Award-winning filmmaker James Cameron (""Titanic"") and earned a record breaking $2.8 billion worldwide at the box office. Kilkenny oversaw the effects on such recent blockbuster films as ""Prometheus"", ""Rise of the Planet of"
"because his works are in the public domain."" Cameron and Del Toro put forward the idea to Universal, who greenlit it. Earlier that same year, del Toro had also asked S. T. Joshi if he wanted to be a consultant once the movie got into production. However, due to many delays, Cameron and del Toro left the project after del Toro realized that the film would have been very similar to Ridley Scott's 2012 film ""Prometheus"". On May 5, 2012, Cameron expressed his desire to direct a prequel to his acclaimed and successful ""Avatar"" film, with Sigourney Weaver slated to"
"conclusion in 2017. In 2009, he was cast as Dr. Norm Spellman in James Cameron's ""Avatar"" (2009), a role he will reprise for the film's upcoming sequels, ""Avatar 2"" (2020) and ""Avatar 3"" (2021). Moore has also starred in several music videos, and directed films: His directorial debut was the psychological thriller ""Spiral"" (2007), followed by the drama ""Youth in Oregon"" (2016), and ""Killing Winston Jones"" (2018). Moore was born September 25, 1977 in Portland, Oregon, the son of Missy (née Irvine) and John Moore. Moore was raised in Portland, where his family resided in the Mount Tabor neighborhood. He"
"to the lengthy shoot"", as she would only have one month of shootings, but also ""a pivotal character in the ongoing story"". In October 13, 2017, it was announced that Giovanni Ribisi would reprise his role of Parker Selfridge from the first film, in all four upcoming ""Avatar"" films. On January 25, 2018, Dileep Rao was confirmed to return as Dr. Max Patel. ""Avatar 2"" had entered production and started preliminary shooting on August 15, 2017, with Manhattan Beach, California as the main shooting location. Principal photography started on September 25, 2017, simultaneously with ""Avatar 3"". As Sigourney Weaver later"
"""The Abyss"", and the executive producer of """". Hamilton played the role of Sarah Connor in both ""Terminator"" films. Amis played the part of Lizzy Calvert, Rose's granddaughter, in ""Titanic"". Both Cameron (""Avatar"") and Bigelow (""The Hurt Locker"") were nominated for the Oscar, the Golden Globe, and the BAFTA Award for Best Director for films released in 2009. Cameron won the Golden Globe, while Bigelow won the Oscar and the BAFTA for Best Director, becoming the first woman to win either. Cameron became an expert on deep-sea exploration in conjunction with his research and underwater filming for ""The Abyss"" (1989)"
"the release of ""Avatar"", on February 28, 2010, Cameron was also honored with a Visual Effects Society (VES) Lifetime Achievement Award. For ""Avatar"", Cameron won numerous awards as well, including: Golden Globes for Best Motion Picture – Drama (shared with Jon Landau) and Best Director. He was nominated for three Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Director and Best Film Editing (shared with John Refoua and Stephen E. Rivkin). However, Cameron and ""Avatar"" lost to his former wife Kathryn Bigelow and her film, ""The Hurt Locker"". On September 24, 2010, James Cameron was named Number 1 in The 2010 Guardian Film"
"16, 2012. Two sequels to ""Avatar"" were initially confirmed after the success of the first film; this number was subsequently expanded to four. Their respective release dates are currently December 18, 2020, December 17, 2021, December 20, 2024, and December 19, 2025. Cameron is directing, producing and co-writing all four; Josh Friedman, Rick Jaffa, Amanda Silver, and Shane Salerno all took a part in the writing process of all of the sequels before being assigned to finish the separate scripts, making the eventual writing credits for each film unclear. Filming for the first two sequels began in September 2017 and"
"by Peter Jackson. In 2005, Moran won her first Visual Effects Society Award for Outstanding Visual Effects in an Effects Driven Feature Motion Picture from the Visual Effects Society for her work on Peter Jackson's ""King Kong"". Moran led the Weta Digital effects team which worked on James Cameron's ""Avatar"", released in 2009. Moran and her team won the Visual Effects Society Award for Outstanding Visual Effects in an Effects Driven Feature Motion Picture for their work on ""Avatar"" in 2009. She also received a Visual Effects Society Award nomination for her work on Steven Spielberg's """". Her film credits"
"years later. In 2009, Weaver starred as Mary Griffith in her first made-for-TV movie, ""Prayers for Bobby"", for which she was nominated for an Emmy Award, Golden Globe Award, and Screen Actors Guild Award. She also made a rare guest appearance on television playing herself in season 2 episode of the television series ""Eli Stone"" in the fall of 2008. She reunited with ""Aliens"" director James Cameron for his film ""Avatar"" (2009), with Weaver playing a major role as Dr. Grace Augustine, leader of the AVTR (avatar) program on the film's fictional moon Pandora. Weaver has done voice work in"
"film of all time, Cameron's ""Avatar"". Horner collaborated on multiple projects with directors including Don Bluth, James Cameron, Joe Johnston, Walter Hill and Ron Howard; producers including George Lucas, David Kirschner, Jon Landau, Brian Grazer and Steven Spielberg; and songwriters including Will Jennings, Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil. He won two Academy Awards, two Golden Globes, three Satellite Awards, and three Saturn Awards, and was nominated for three British Academy Film Awards. Horner, who was an avid pilot, died at the age of 61 in a single-fatality crash while flying his Short Tucano turboprop aircraft. Horner was born in 1953"
"all reprising their roles from the original film, with Sigourney Weaver returning in a different role. Cameron, who had stated in 2006 that he would like to make sequels to ""Avatar"" if it were successful, announced the first two in 2010 following the widespread success of the first film, with ""Avatar 2"" aiming for a 2014 release. However, the subsequent addition of two more sequels, and the necessity to develop new technology in order to film performance capture scenes underwater, a feat never accomplished before in motion capture history, led to significant delays to allow the crew more time to"
"was going to happen next?"". For French filmmaker Luc Besson, ""Avatar"" opened the doors for him to now create an adaptation of the graphic novel series ""Valérian and Laureline"" that technologically supports the scope of its source material, with Besson even throwing his original script in the trash and redoing it after seeing the film. ""TIME"" ranked ""Avatar"" number 3 in their list of ""The 10 Greatest Movies of the Millennium (Thus Far)"" also earning it a spot on the magazine's All-TIME 100 list, and IGN listed ""Avatar"" as number 22 on their list of the top 25 Sci-Fi movies"
"and the more naturalistic acting. Tadjedin approached the male leads based on how their chemistry with Knightley."""" After watching Sam Worthington in the 2004 film ""Somersault"", Tadjedin sent him the script for ""Last Night"", and met with him on-set for the 2009 film ""Avatar"". She hired the actor due to his ""great sympathy for the character of Michael"" and her impression that he would have a ""a great married chemistry"" with Knightley. Tadjedin approached Guillaume Canet about his role during a screening of his 2006 film ""Tell No One."" Lines were cut from scenes between Knightley and Canet to focus"